För övrigt läser jag att Time har utsett Vladimir Putin till årets person. Passande tycker jag. Johan Norberg jämför det med valet av Adolf Hitler 1938.

Time Magazine has named Vladimir Putin “man of the year”, for giving Russia strength and stability under an authoritarian regime.

Well, we have seen that before.

Fast citatet Johan har valt är, tycker jag, klippt på missvisande vis. Det låter som om Time hyllar Hitler, liksom vi skall få uppfattningen att de hyllar Putin. Men citatet från 1938 fortsätter:

What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations of the once-vaunted German centres of learning have vanished. Education has been reduced to a National Socialist catechism.

Person of the Year utses den till som gjort mest för att påverka händelserna under året “for better or for worse“. Ingen passar lika bra som Putin, speciellt efter det senaste ryska valet.

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